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Basic Quotes by Ayn Rand
- What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or…
- The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated…
- It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and…
- A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.
- Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.
- Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.
- Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates,…
- A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of…
- We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity…
- There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any…
- My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,†i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic…
- I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these…
- Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines…
- Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is…
- The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who…
- Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness,…
- The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter… — Frederick Lenz
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue… — Alton Brown
- The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not… — Annie Besant
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you… — Rajneesh
- It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'… — Albert Einstein